Elevate your professional journey with "The Art of Managing Up", a comprehensive course designed by ProSkills to transform your employee-supervisor relationship into a powerful partnership.

What is Managing Up?

Managing up is a strategic approach to enhancing your employee-supervisor dynamic. It involves doing your best work, communicating effectively, and adding significant value to your team. This course teaches you to anticipate team needs and proactively support your manager in achieving shared goals. Importantly, it's not about flattery, manipulation, or simply telling your manager what they want to hear. Instead, it's about creating alignment and fostering an interdependent relationship where both parties contribute to career development and organisational success.

Why is Managing Up a Win-Win?

Mastering the art of managing up makes you a more successful and valuable employee. By anticipating needs, offering solutions, and communicating proactively, you naturally increase your worth, paving the way for potential promotions or raises. Furthermore, these skills foster positive, mutually beneficial workplace relationships, leading to a more enjoyable environment for everyone. Your manager can also become a powerful advocate, resource, and mentor for your career development.

What You Will Learn

This comprehensive 9-lesson course, focusing on Communication & Relationship Skills, provides actionable strategies for effective communication, career development, and team collaboration:

• Get to Know Each Other's Preferences: Learn to identify and adapt to your manager's preferred communication channels (e.g., video, email), update frequency, feedback methods, and natural communication style. Crucially, you'll also learn to effectively communicate your own needs and preferences.
• Communicate Effectively & Proactively: Discover how to be proactive by addressing issues early and sharing your unique insights, ideas, and feedback openly. The course outlines how to respectfully express doubts or disagreements and provide important project details concisely. You will also learn to align expectations by asking thoughtful questions about project, performance, and behavioural norms.
• Take Ownership: Develop accountability for your tasks, deadlines, and performance goals, demonstrating dependability to your manager. This includes taking responsibility for mistakes, learning from them, and driving your own career development by identifying goals and seeking opportunities. You'll also learn to bring recommendations or solutions when presenting problems, laying the groundwork for faster resolution.
• Bridge the Gaps: Identify and fill needs within your team or for your manager, leveraging your unique skills and strengths to add value where it's most needed.
• Contribute to a Positive Team Culture: Understand the profound impact of your actions, words, and attitudes on the team's culture. Cultivate high-value behaviours such as showing genuine care for colleagues, communicating empathetically, embracing new challenges with enthusiasm, asking for and giving feedback, and avoiding negative behaviours like gossip, thereby increasing your "cultural contribution".
• Recognise Your Manager's Humanity: Appreciate that your manager is a person with their own challenges, just like you, experiencing bad days, stress, and mistakes. Learn to manage assumptions, express sincere praise, offer support for their professional goals, and respect their valuable time by being prepared and efficient in your interactions.

Who is this course for? Any employee looking to enhance their professional relationships, boost their career trajectory, and foster a more positive and productive work environment will benefit significantly from this course.

Enroll now to transform your employee-manager relationship and unlock new levels of success!